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Zimbabwe

The economic situation continues to decline with very little funds available for public expenditure and social services. As a result, the health sector faces numerous challenges, including shortages of medical supplies and essential medicines.

We run projects in partnership with the Zimbabwean Ministry of Health and Child Care (MoHCC), that include treatment and care for people living with HIV, health programmes for migrants, adolescent sexual and reproductive health and environmental health.

Under the health programme for migrants in Beitbridge, MSF teams offer medical assistance to migrants and deportees according to their specific health needs. In Tongogara Refugee Camp, we provide refugees and asylum seekers with mental healthcare.

We also offer comprehensive sexual and reproductive healthcare services for adolescents in the urban districts of Mbare and Epworth and support the health ministry to respond to disease outbreaks.

Our activities in 2023 in Zimbabwe

Data and information from the International Activity Report 2023.

MSF in Zimbabwe in 2023 Throughout 2023, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) supported the national response to widespread cholera outbreaks in Zimbabwe. We also ran projects aimed at filling gaps in healthcare in Harare and Gwanda.
Zimbabwe IAR map 2023

Since February 2023, our teams have been supporting the Ministry of Health and Child Care to respond to cholera outbreaks in Chegutu, Beitbridge, Buhera, Harare and Chitungwiza districts. As well as providing treatment and medical supplies, we carried out infection prevention and control, surveillance and awareness-raising activities, and implemented measures to improve water, sanitation and hygiene facilities.

In the capital, Harare, we continued to run our adolescent sexual reproductive health project. Our teams conducted consultations in youth-friendly settings at Mbare clinic and Epworth youth centre, offering treatment for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and provided safe abortion and post-abortion care. The project also ensures that adolescents and young people in Mbare have access to mental health and psychosocial support.

In October, we started a new project in Gwanda district, Matabeleland South province, working with artisanal miners and host communities. We offer a range of services through a community outreach clinic, including screening and treatment for STIs and HIV, as well as family planning.  

In June, we handed over the migrant health project that we had been running in southern Zimbabwe to the Ministry of Public Labour and Social Welfare, and the Ministry of Health and Child Care. For five years, we had been providing medical and mental health care to migrants and deportees at the border town of Beitbridge, and in satellite projects in Plumtree and in Tongogara refugee camp.   
 

in 2023
 
Zimbabwe

MSF responding to worst cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe in years

Project Update 15 Dec 2008
 
Zimbabwe

MSF responds to Zimbabwe's cholera outbreak

Project Update 4 Dec 2008
 
Zimbabwe

Impact of cholera in Beitbridge, southern Zimbabwe

Project Update 4 Dec 2008
 
Zimbabwe

MSF teams react to 'biggest ever' cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe's capital

Project Update 18 Nov 2008
 
Zimbabwe

Sewage problems cause cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe

Project Update 17 Sep 2008
 
Zimbabwe

MSF calls upon South African authorities to immediately stop deportation of Zimbabweans

Press Release 28 Jun 2008